FORT LANGLEY

FORT LANGLEY
Is a subdivision and part of the township of Langley and community all of its own, located about 40 kilometers northeast of Vancouver in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. It is named after Thomas Langley, a former official and employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In 1839, a new post was built 5 kilometers up from the Fraser River and was first known as Derby, closer to suitable farmland. When the original fort was destroyed by a massive fire in 1840, it was replaced and relocated close to the present site. When British Columbia was declared a colony in 1858, Fort Langley quickly became a starting point for miners heading towards the goldfields in the Interior, like Barkerville, Yale and Quesnel Forks. The fort remained in business until 1886, and from that time it became a prerequisite post producing agricultural products as well as cured salmon. In 1955, the British Columbia government declared the site as a National Historic Park and several buildings were reconstructed and in the 1990s, The Greater Vancouver Regional District and the government of the Township of Langley built a fort-to-fort trail linking the historic Park with the old site at Derby. Today, the village of Fort Langley caters to tourists mainly because of its antique shops, sidewalk cafes, 2 museums and many historic buildings. The town is also fast becoming as major commercial filming location for movies, commercials and TV shows partly due to its intriguing town hall that is colored yellow that has featured so many times during the filming developments.

FORT LANGLEY’S POPULATION: 2,865

NORTH VANCOUVER

NORTH VANCOUVER
Is a waterfront city and district municipality that occupies the lower slopes of the North Shores and across downtown Vancouver from Burrard Inlet via the Seabus and Lions Gate Bridge. North Vancouver City was developed in 1900 as a marketable location for commercial activity at the bottom of Lonsdale Avenue. On May 13th of 1907 with a population of about 2,000 people, North Vancouver became incorporated as a city and during the First World War (WWI), it quickly expanded to its present day size when it absorbed and merged the sawmill community of Moodyville, which is located just to the east of both of here and the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge. Shortly thereafter, a village, post office, and school were quickly situated and sprang up. In its early years, North Vancouver City’s main economic activities were ship-building and sawmilling. During the years of the depression, North Vancouver was forced to declared bankruptcy and managed by a commissioner until 1944. Since then the city has lost much as early day historical and industrial character and is considered mostly as a residential suburb of Vancouver and the waterfront has since been revitalized with the addition of the Lonsdale Quay (market, hotel, Translink city bus terminal, and small mini-mall) in 1986. There are 3 main exits that lead travelers to North Vancouver City from the Trans-Canada Highway/Upper Levels Highway; including Lonsdale Avenue Exit (Exit #18), Westview Road exit (Exit #17), and the Lynn Valley Road Exit (Exit #19). North Vancouver is named simply because of its geographical location north of Vancouver via Burrard Inlet and its main economic activities include tourism, light industry and retail services.

NORTH VANCOUVER’S POPULATION: 45,165 (CITY)
NORTH VANCOUVER'S POPULATION: 82,562 (DISTRICT)